1 Samuel 3

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I’ve been waking up every other night between 3-4am. I decided to read every 3rd chapter in the bible. After I read 1 Samuel 3 the next day, Pastor Bryant’s sermon was from 1 Samuel. I decided to study it out and ask the Holy Spirit to teach me what word is He bringing me through this passage.

The words I heard the most was answering the call. What was the call? To step out on Faith and leave the job.

Calling - God is summoning people

Synopsis

God’s summoning of individuals and people to himself, so that they will belong to him and serve him in his world. The calling of a believer may involve a specific place, task or vocation in life.

I am called to Intercession

Few respond positively to God’s call

Mt 22:14

Matthew 22:14 (LEB) — 14 For many are called but few are chosen.”

See also Is 65:12; Is 66:4; Je 7:13; Je 35:17; Mt 22:2–10

Isaiah 65:12 (LEB) — 12 and I will remit you to the sword, and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter, because I called, but you did not answer; I spoke, but you did not listen, but you did the evil in my eyes, and you chose that in which I do not delight.”

Is there an area of my life that God has called and I didn’t answer?

Consistency

I repent and I ask Holy Spirit to help me be consistent

Jeremiah 7:13 (LEB) — 13 And now, because of your doing all these things,” declares Yahweh, “and I have spoken to you over and over again, and you have not listened, and I called you, and you have not answered,

KJV says I spake unto you rising up early

Morning time is a perfect time for meditation - I want to be more consistent in this area as well

I feel God is telling me He has instructed me to be more consistent in prayer and I have not obeyed

I repent of my inconsistency

God called particular individuals to do specific tasks at specific times

Abraham:

Heb 11:8

Hebrews 11:8 (LEB) — 8 By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to a place that he was going to receive for an inheritance, and he went out, not knowing where he was going.

I stepped out on Faith for the ministry full time, like Abraham, not knowing where I am going

I asked God to lead me by his Spirit step by step

I am learning self care is spiritual. My first week I was running around and the next week I felt guilty to sleep in. God was telling me to listen to him. To allow His spirit to lead me and not trying to force it to happen

Is 6:8 Isaiah

Isaiah 6:8 (LEB) — 8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “I am here! Send me!”

Send me Jesus

I have a hunger for God to lead me for the sake of the Kingdom

Je 1:4–5 Jeremiah; Ho 1:2 Hosea; Am 7:15 Amos

Jeremiah 1:4–5 (LEB) — 4 And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you came out from the womb I consecrated you; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

I have been appointed an intercessor to the Entertainment industry

I have been appointed an intercessor to Jamal Bryant

Amos 7:15 (LEB) — 15 And Yahweh took me from following behind the sheep and goats and Yahweh said to me, “Go, prophesy to my people Israel!

God took Eunice from Home Depot and said Go, intercede for my people

God called a people, Israel, to serve him in a special way

Is 43:1

Isaiah 43:1 (LEB) — 1 But now thus says Yahweh, he who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel: “You must not fear, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name; you are mine.

I have been called by God

He knows my name

It’s personal

The believer’s place in life is understood to be a calling

1 Co 7:17

1 Corinthians 7:17 (LEB) — 17 But to each one as the Lord has apportioned. As God has called each one, thus let him live—and thus I order in all the churches.

Let me live in the top 3 of my calling

Am I living in intercession?

Am I living in discernment?

Am I living in teaching?

See also 1 Co 7:20; 1 Co 7:24

1 Corinthians 7:20 (LEB) — 20 Each one in the calling in which he was called—in this he should remain.

Few people respond positively to the calling of God

I feel initially I didn’t respond positively because of my inconsistency

The importance of listening

Nature of knowing God

Synopsis

To know God is not merely to know things about him, such as his character, but also to experience his presence and power. To know God is to be transformed by him. Human knowledge of God is as a result of God’s revelation of himself.

The origin of knowing God

Knowing God depends on revelation

Ro 11:33–36

Romans 11:33–36 (LEB) — 33 Oh, the depth of the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how incomprehensible are his ways! 34 “For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor? 35 Or who has given in advance to him, and it will be paid back to him?” 36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory for eternity! Amen.

Dt 29:29; Nu 12:6; Job 12:22; Is 40:5; Is 65:1; Da 2:28

Deuteronomy 29:29 (LEB) — 29 “The hidden things belong to Yahweh our God, but the revealed things belong to us to know and to our children forever, in order to do all the words of this law.”

Numbers 12:6 (LEB) — 6 and he said, “Please hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak to him in a dream.

Please God reveal your secrets to me

Job 12:22 (LEB) — 22 “He uncovers mysteries out of darkness, and he brings deep shadow to the light.

Isaiah 40:5 (LEB) — 5 And the glory of Yahweh shall be revealed, and all humankind together shall see it, for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken.”

Daniel 2:28 (LEB) — 28 But there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what it is that will be at the end of days. This is your dream and the visions of your head on your bed.

Am 4:13; Mt 11:25–27 Jesus Christ praises the Father for the revelation the disciples receive; Ro 16:25–26; Ga 1:12; Eph 3:4–5

Amos 4:13 (LEB) — 13 Yes, here is the one who forms the mountains, and the one who creates the wind, and the one who reveals to humankind what his thoughts are, the one who turns dawn into darkness, and the one who treads on the heights of the earth; Yahweh, the God of hosts, is his name!”

Matthew 11:25–27 (LEB) — 25 At that time Jesus answered and said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and have revealed them to young children. 26 Yes, Father, for to do so was your gracious will. 27 All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wants to reveal him.

Romans 16:25–26 (LEB) —

Galatians 1:12 (LEB) — 12 For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 3:4–5 (LEB) — 4 so that you may be able when you read to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ 5 (which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit):

Father please reveal the mysteries of you to know

I want God to reveal himself to me

Dimensions and mysteries is what I want to know

God gives knowledge of himself and his ways through the Spirit

Eph 1:17

Ephesians 1:17 (LEB) — 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him

See also Is 11:2; Jn 14:16–17; Jn 14:26; Jn 15:26; Jn 16:12–15; Ac 4:31; 1 Co 2:9–11; 1 Co 12:8; Eph 3:16–19; 1 Pe 1:12

Isaiah 11:2 (LEB) — 2 And the spirit of Yahweh shall rest on him— a spirit of wisdom and understanding, a spirit of counsel and might, a spirit of knowledge and the fear of Yahweh.

John 14:16–17 (LEB) — 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, in order that he may be with you forever—17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it does not see him or know him. You know him, because he resides with you and will be in you.

John 14:26 (LEB) — 26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name—that one will teach you all things, and will remind you of everything that I said to you.

John 15:26 (LEB) — 26 “When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father—that one will testify about me.

John 16:12–15 (LEB) — 12 I still have many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them now. 13 But when he—the Spirit of truth—comes, he will guide you into all the truth. For he will not speak from himself, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will proclaim to you the things to come. 14 He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and will proclaim it to you. 15 Everything that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he takes from what is mine and will proclaim it to you.

Acts 4:31 (LEB) — 31 And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness.

1 Corinthians 2:9–11 (LEB) — 9 But just as it is written, “Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and have not entered into the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love him.” 10 For to us God has revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. 11 For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man that is in him? Thus also no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

Ephesians 3:16–19 (LEB) — 16 that he may grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person, 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith (you having been firmly rooted and established in love), 18 in order that you may be strong enough to grasp together with all the saints what is the breadth, and length, and height, and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, in order that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

1 Peter 1:12 (LEB) — 12 to whom it was revealed that they were serving not themselves but you with reference to the same things which now have been announced to you through those who proclaimed the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels desire to look.

God gives knowledge of his greatness and grace through experience of him, submission to him and in answer to prayer

Ps 56:9–11

Psalm 56:9–11 (LEB) — 9 Then my enemies will turn back when I call. This I know because God is for me. 10 God, whose word I praise, Yahweh, whose word I praise, 11 God I trust; I do not fear. What can mere humankind do to me?

See also Ex 9:29; Ps 17:6–7; Ps 66:19–20; Is 41:19–20; Is 45:3–6; Is 50:4; Is 60:16; Je 22:16; Je 24:7; Eze 6:7

Exodus 9:29 (LEB) — 29 And Moses said to him, “At my leaving the city, I will spread out my hands to Yahweh. The thunder will stop, and the hail will be no more, so that you will know that the earth belongs to Yahweh.

Psalm 17:6–7 (LEB) — 6 As for me, I have called on you because you will answer me, O God. Incline your ear to me. Hear my words. 7 Show wondrously your acts of loyal love, O Savior of those who take refuge at your right hand from those who rise up against them.

Psalm 66:19–20 (LEB) — 19 However, God has listened; he has attended to the sound of my prayer. 20 Blessed be God, who has not turned aside my prayer, or his loyal love from me.

Isaiah 41:19–20 (LEB) — 19 I will put the cedar, acacia, myrtle, and olive oil tree in the wilderness; I will set the cypress, elm, and box tree together in the desert 20 so that they may see and know, and take to heart and understand together that the hand of Yahweh has done this, and the holy one of Israel has created it.”

Isaiah 45:3–6 (LEB) — 3 And I will give you the treasures of darkness and treasures of secret places so that you may know that I am Yahweh, the one who calls you by your name, the God of Israel, 4 for the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my chosen one. And I call you by your name; I give you a name of honor, though you do not know me. 5 I am Yahweh, and there is none besides me; besides me there is no god. I gird you though you do not know me, 6 so that they may know from the rising of the sun and from the west that there is none besides me; I am Yahweh and there is none besides me.

Isaiah 50:4 (LEB) — 4 The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of a pupil, to know how to help the weary with a word. He awakens morning by morning, awakens an ear for me to listen as do the pupils.

Isaiah 60:16 (LEB) — 16 And you shall suck the milk of nations, and suck the breast of kings, and you shall know that I am Yahweh your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Strong One of Jacob.

Jeremiah 22:16 (LEB) — 16 He judged the legal cause of the needy and the poor, and then it was well. Is that not what it means to know me?” declares Yahweh.

Jeremiah 24:7 (LEB) — 7 And I will give to them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh, and they will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with the whole of their heart.

The nature of knowing God

Knowing his character

Jon 4:2

Jonah 4:2 (LEB) — 2 And he prayed to Yahweh and said, “O Yahweh, was this not what I said while I was in my homeland? Therefore I originally fled to Tarshish, because I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and having great steadfast love, and one who relents concerning calamity.

See also Dt 7:9; Ps 9:10; Ps 36:10; Ps 135:5; 1 Th 4:3–5; 1 Jn 4:8; 1 Jn 4:16

Deuteronomy 7:9 (LEB) — 9 So know that Yahweh your God, he is God, the trustworthy God, maintaining his covenant and his loyal love with those who love him and with those who keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

Psalm 9:10 (LEB) — 10 And those who know your name will trust in you, for you do not forsake those who seek you, O Yahweh.

Psalm 36:10 (LEB) — 10 Prolong your loyal love to those who know you, and your righteousness to the upright of heart.

Psalm 135:5 (LEB) — 5 For I know that Yahweh is great, and our Lord is greater than all gods.

1 Thessalonians 4:3–5 (LEB) — 3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in lustful passion, just as also the Gentiles who do not know God;

1 John 4:8 (LEB) — 8 The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 John 4:16 (LEB) — 16 And we have come to know and have believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.

Knowing his words and works

Am 3:7

Amos 3:7 (LEB) — 7 Surely my Lord does not do anything unless he has revealed his secret to his servants the prophets.

See also Ge 41:25 Pharaoh; Ex 6:6–7; Ex 7:5; Ex 7:17; Ex 18:11; Dt 29:29

Exodus 6:6–7 (LEB) — 6 Therefore say to the Israelites, ‘I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the forced labor of Egypt, and I will deliver you from their slavery, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great punishments. 7 And I will take you as my people, and I will be your God, and you will know that I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out from under the forced labor of Egypt.

Exodus 7:5 (LEB) — 5 And the Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh when I stretch out my hand over Egypt and bring the Israelites out from their midst.”

Exodus 7:17 (LEB) — 17 Thus says Yahweh, “By this you will know that I am Yahweh. Look, I am about to strike with the staff that is in my hand the water that is in the Nile, and it will be changed to blood.

Exodus 18:11 (LEB) — 11 Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all the gods, even in the matter where they the Egyptians dealt arrogantly against the Israelites.”

Deuteronomy 29:29 (LEB) — 29 “The hidden things belong to Yahweh our God, but the revealed things belong to us to know and to our children forever, in order to do all the words of this law.”

Samuel:

1 Sa 3:7; 1 Sa 3:21

1 Samuel 3:7 (LEB) — 7 Now Samuel did not yet know Yahweh, and the word of Yahweh had not yet been revealed to him.

1 Samuel 3:21 (LEB) — 21 And Yahweh appeared again in Shiloh, for Yahweh revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh through the word of Yahweh.

David:

1 Sa 17:46; 2 Sa 7:21; 2 Sa 7:27

1 Samuel 17:46 (LEB) — 46 This day Yahweh will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head! Then I will give the corpses of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of heaven and to the animals of the earth, so that all the earth may know that there is a God who is for Israel.

2 Samuel 7:21 (LEB) — 21 Because of your word and according to your heart, you have done all of this great thing, in order to let your servant know.

2 Samuel 7:27 (LEB) — 27 For you, O Yahweh of hosts, are God of Israel! You have revealed to the ear of your servant, ‘I will build a house for you’; therefore your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you.

2 Ki 8:10 Elisha; 2 Ki 19:19 Hezekiah; Ps 147:19; Eze 20:9; Lk 2:26 Simeon; Jn 17:8; Ac 2:22; Ac 22:14

2 Kings 8:10 (LEB) — 10 Elisha said to him, “Go; say to him, ‘You shall certainly recover,’ but Yahweh has shown me that he certainly will die.”

2 Kings 19:19 (LEB) — 19 So then, O Yahweh our God, rescue us, please, from his hand, that all of the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, O Yahweh, you alone are God!”

Psalm 147:19 (LEB) — 19 He declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

Ezekiel 20:9 (LEB) — 9 “But I acted for the sake of my name to keep it from being profaned before the eyes of the nations among whom they lived, where I made known to them before their eyes, to bring them out from the land of Egypt.

Luke 2:26 (LEB) — 26 And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he would see the Lord’s Christ.

John 17:8 (LEB) — 8 because the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they received them and know truly that I have come from you, and they have believed that you have sent me.

Acts 2:22 (LEB) — 22 “Israelite men, listen to these words! Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with deeds of power and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, just as you yourselves know—

Acts 22:14 (LEB) — 14 And he said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One and to hear a voice from his mouth,

To know Jesus Christ is to know God

Jn 14:6; Col 1:15

John 14:6 (LEB) — 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Colossians 1:15 (LEB) — 15 who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,

See also Mt 16:16–17; Jn 8:19; Jn 15:15; Jn 16:15; Jn 17:26; Col 2:2–3; 1 Jn 5:20

Matthew 16:16–17 (LEB) — 16 And Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God!” 17 And Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

John 8:19 (LEB) — 19 So they were saying to him, “Where is your father?” Jesus replied, “You know neither me nor my Father! If you had known me, you would have known my Father also.”

John 15:15 (LEB) — 15 No longer do I call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything that I have heard from my Father I have revealed to you.

John 16:15 (LEB) — 15 Everything that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he takes from what is mine and will proclaim it to you.

John 17:26 (LEB) — 26 And I made known to them your name, and will make it known, in order that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I may be in them.”

Colossians 2:2–3 (LEB) — 2 so that their hearts may be encouraged, united in love and into all the wealth of the full assurance of insight into the knowledge of the mystery of God, Christ, 3 in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

1 John 5:20 (LEB) — 20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, in order that we may know the one who is true, and we are in the one who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.

To know God is to experience his salvation

Jn 17:3

John 17:3 (LEB) — 3 Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

See also Ps 17:6–7; Is 25:9; Is 43:12; Is 52:10; Is 56:1; 1 Jn 5:13; 1 Jn 5:20

Isaiah 25:9 (LEB) — 9 And one will say, on that day, “Look! This is our God! We have waited for him and he saved us! This is Yahweh; we waited for him! Let us be glad, and let us rejoice in his salvation.”

Isaiah 43:12 (LEB) — 12 I myself declared and saved, and I proclaimed. And there was no strange god among you. And you are my witnesses,” declares Yahweh, “and I am God.

Isaiah 52:10 (LEB) — 10 Yahweh has bared his holy arm to the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

Isaiah 56:1 (LEB) — 1 Thus says Yahweh: “Observe justice and do righteousness, for my salvation is close to coming, and my justice to being revealed.

1 John 5:13 (LEB) — 13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, in order that you may know that you have eternal life.

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